Stratford’s big flagship production this year is Chicago, promising programming for its darkness and modernity compared to the festival’s usual musical fare. With two leading female characters and a few great supporting ones, the musical also presented a great opportunity for the festival to highlight some overlooked talent and maybe even recruit some new stars. […]
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Onstage at Oshawa’s Regent Theatre for four days only, this thrice-postponed iteration of a homegrown cult hit is a shaky attempt at commercial theatre production with community theatre limitations. I admire Mansfield Entertainment’s concept of bringing large-format theatre to a community that could use a serious arts infusion and the professional designation should mean that […]
No one else is anymore but we’re still physical media devotees round these parts. In that spirit, we’re sharing the details of a few of the most exciting new home entertainment releases for collectors who are still into that kind of thing. Review copies were provided by Warners Brothers and Universal. All thoughts are our […]
We’ve been waiting for this one. The young Shakespeare enthusiasts who came up watching Slings & Arrows only to graduate into a decade of shy Shakespeare from the festival we were indoctrinated to adore, this is the production we’ve been waiting for. We wanted new blood, we wanted new ideas, we wanted someone under the […]
In the press room at San Diego Comic-Con, we chat with Matt Weitzman (Executive Producer & Co-Creator), Nicole Shabtai (Co-Executive Producer), Dee Bradley Baker (‘Klaus’), Jeff Fischer (‘Jeff Fischer’), and Jordan Blum (Panel Moderator & American Dad! Alum) about the politics of American Dad! and keeping the show fresh nearly 20 years in.
Walking the floor at San Diego Comic-Con, it’s impossible to miss the spectacular life-like sculptures of iconic characters. We got the chance to chat with Marcelo Bassoli from Iron Studios, the company behind these incredible installations.
Did you know that one man owns the rights to Batman? Michael Uslan has executive produced every Batman film (including animation!) since 1989. Then he wrote a memoir. And now it’s headed to Broadway! We chatted with Michael in the press room at San Diego Comic-Con about his brilliant Bat-life and the journey to the Great White Way.
At the Random House booth on the floor at San Diego Comic-Con, we got to chat with some of the awesome writers creating for kids (and kids at heart). Lucas Turnbloom’s colourful graphic novel about a kid who considers himself a supervillain was released in May and is available wherever books are sold.